Spree Development
mcculloughsean
I've just been tasked with maintaining a very old, poorly written
ecommerce website and am pondering Spree as a solution as a basis for
a fresh start. I have a couple of issues to raise to the community
that will help me determine if spree is the appropriate solution for
us.
First: RoR has been the only platform on which building this solution
would make sense to me. While i've been out of the scene for a while,
I took the time to see what was going on with the whole ecosystem.
Ruby on Rails 3 is due to become final anytime now and offers a bunch
of new features which are worth adopting from the outset. Reading the
discussions here has left me without any good idea about how the Spree
community will address the changes RoR3 will bring, and when to expect
a new release. So what should I expect regarding Spree's development
and Ruby on Rails 3?
Second: Our business is centered around a very complex and archaic
home grown system. I'm looking to export the data to the site, use
some sort of API to keep the two systems in sync (even better if it
was real time), and then export orders to our system. Has anyone
developed a solution similar to this in the past? While i realize the
implementation would be unique to my own situation, any pointers,
references to good plugins, or cautionary tales would be greatly
appreciated.
Third: HAML looks pretty sweet. I feel like it will become a huge time-
saver to use this instead of ERB. Does anyone have experience using
this with Spree? Or is there any intention of integrating it with
Spree?
I would like to hear all the good and the bad.
Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
--Sean
schof
support it but we've always supported the new versions of Rails
shortly after their release. I'm actually experimenting with Rails 3
tonight as I type this (and remember there was a post in spree-user so
I'm responding here now.) Rails 3 is in beta with no clear release
date but we're assuming once its out that most people will want to
start new Spree apps with Rails 3 so we're trying to get an early
start.
Sean
Michael Guterl
Danny
> Second: Our business is centered around a very complex and archaic
> home grown system. I'm looking to export the data to the site, use
> some sort of API to keep the two systems in sync (even better if it
> was real time), and then export orders to our system. Has anyone
> developed a solution similar to this in the past? While i realize the
> implementation would be unique to my own situation, any pointers,
> references to good plugins, or cautionary tales would be greatly
> appreciated.
Take a look at https://launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect - it's the
most advanced example I know of of interfacing a eCommerce / shopping
cart system with other business systems (in this case, OpenERP).
The company that wrote it - http://www.akretion.com - is interested in
doing the same thing for Spree (and has already written much of the
groundwork software to do so) - if anyone would be interested in co-
funding this work with my company I'd like to hear from you (for my
corp it is something we won't need for quite a while, but there would
of course be an advantage to having the code available / others using
it sooner so when we do need it it is more polished). I have a quote
from Akretion for the work that seems very reasonable.
Cheers,
--
Daniel JB Clark | http://pobox.com/~dclark | Activist; Owner
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FREEDOM -+-> INCLUDED ~ http://freedomincluded.com
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liebana
connected our first Spree shop (www.defloresyfloreros.com) with
OpenERP and they are already in production (and very happy).
We have to release documentation about how this works, but if you're
familiar with
OpenERP (if you're not, you should), the connector has been released
here http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp-community/openobject-addons/trunk-addons-community/files/head%3A/esale_spree/
and you can see it (and old version, not needed to import clients
because it's already extracted from order sales) in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFgUkPGcvc
Regards.
On 29 mar, 18:06, Danny <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 9:37 pm, mcculloughsean <mcculloughs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Second: Our business is centered around a very complex and archaic
> > home grown system. I'm looking to export the data to the site, use
> > some sort of API to keep the two systems in sync (even better if it
> > was real time), and then export orders to our system. Has anyone
> > developed a solution similar to this in the past? While i realize the
> > implementation would be unique to my own situation, any pointers,
> > references to good plugins, or cautionary tales would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> Take a look at https://launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect- it's the
> most advanced example I know of of interfacing a eCommerce / shopping
> cart system with other business systems (in this case, OpenERP).
>
> The company that wrote it -http://www.akretion.com- is interested in
> doing the same thing for Spree (and has already written much of the
> groundwork software to do so) - if anyone would be interested in co-
> funding this work with my company I'd like to hear from you (for my
> corp it is something we won't need for quite a while, but there would
> of course be an advantage to having the code available / others using
> it sooner so when we do need it it is more polished). I have a quote
> from Akretion for the work that seems very reasonable.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Daniel JB Clark |http://pobox.com/~dclark| Activist; Owner
> \|/
> FREEDOM -+-> INCLUDED ~http://freedomincluded.com
mcculloughsean
Danny and liebana: Your examples are very useful, thank you. I wish we
could move to a system like openerp, but for the time being i have to
deal with a very old codebase wrapped around Access97 (yeah, i know).
On Mar 30, 4:59 am, liebana <carloslieb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We made part of that work for you, using the Spree Api we have
> connected our first Spree shop (www.defloresyfloreros.com) with
> OpenERP and they are already in production (and very happy).
>
> We have to release documentation about how this works, but if you're
> familiar with
> OpenERP (if you're not, you should), the connector has been released
> herehttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp-community/openobject-addons/trun...
>
> and you can see it (and old version, not needed to import clients
> because it's already extracted from order sales) in action here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFgUkPGcvc
>
> Regards.
>
> On 29 mar, 18:06, Danny <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 24, 9:37 pm, mcculloughsean <mcculloughs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Second: Our business is centered around a very complex and archaic
> > > home grown system. I'm looking to export the data to the site, use
> > > some sort of API to keep the two systems in sync (even better if it
> > > was real time), and then export orders to our system. Has anyone
> > > developed a solution similar to this in the past? While i realize the
> > > implementation would be unique to my own situation, any pointers,
> > > references to good plugins, or cautionary tales would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
>
> > Take a look at https://launchpad.net/magentoerpconnect-it's the
> > most advanced example I know of of interfacing a eCommerce / shopping
> > cart system with other business systems (in this case, OpenERP).
>
> > The company that wrote it -http://www.akretion.com-is interested in